About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Friday, April 06, 2007

April 6......

April 6 is the 96th (97th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Bigotry & Prejudice "Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety." — Ben Hecht

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "Mission Accomplished" — Banner boasting victory in the war in Iraq was the backdrop to President Bush's speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 648 - BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.

● 6 - BC - This day is believed by some Biblical scholars to be the actual date of the historical birth of Jesus Christ.

● 402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.

● 610 - Lailat-ul Qadar, the night the Koran descended to Earth

● 774 - Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy

● 1106 - Fire in Venice

● 1199 - English King Richard I was killed by an arrow at the siege of the castle of Chaluz in France.

● 1199 - Pierre Basile, killer of Richard I of England, dies.

● 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

● 1327 - The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.

● 1362 - Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France

● 1516 - A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este

● 1634 - Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curaçao"

● 1652 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which eventually becomes Cape Town.

● 1735 - The first Moravians from Europe arrived in America. Invited by colonial governor James Oglethorpe, ten males of the "Unitas Fratrum" landed in Savannah, Georgia after sailing from England in February.

● 1903 - French Army Nationalists were revealed for forging documents to guarantee a conviction for Alfred Dryfus.

● 1904 - Deportation of the British anarchist John Turner is argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, in Turner v. Williams; the court rules in the case in May that Congress has unlimited power to exclude aliens and deport those who have entered in violation of the laws, including philosophical anarchists.

● 1906 - 1st animated cartoon copyrighted

● 1909 - 1st credit union established in US

● 1909 - Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.

● 1911 - Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).

● 1912 - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars

● 1916 - German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare

● 1917 - U.S. enters World War I, declares war on Germany; 56 Congress people oppose U.S. entry. Pres. Woodrow Wilson, re-elected on an anti-war platform, does an about face. Thousands of Americans are suddenly declared "anti-American." They are now considered "traitors" for opposing U.S. entry into a war that will leave 10 million dead. Thousands are now jailed, harassed, tarred and feathered, lynched, forced to get on their knees and kiss the American flag, castrated or killed, etc., by such outstanding icons of "patriotic" virtue as the American Legion -- basically for maintaining the original anti-war position which got Wilson elected President. The government, police, and vigilantes across the nation destroy printing presses, labor halls and offices, burn books and papers, all for the "War for Democracy," a war which was to end all wars. Yep.

● 1950 - John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Secretary of State Dean Acheson

● 1952 - Mass meetings of non-whites to protest against apartheid, South Africa.

● 1952 - American missionary and Auca Indian martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Faith makes life so even, gives one such confidence, that the words of men are as wind.'

● 1953 - Years after Jackie Robinson's entry into the major leagues, followed by many other black stars, the Class C minor league Hot Springs, Arkansas baseball team is voted out of the Cotton States League after the club refuses to cancel contracts with two black pitchers whose services it had obtained.

● 1953 - Iranian Premier Mossadegh demanded that the shah's power be reduced.

● 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

● 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1955 - Yemen failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam

● 1956 - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison

● 1957 - NYC ends trolley car service

● 1957 - USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)

● 1963 - About 45 demonstrators are arrested in a small march on City Hall as civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, escalate.

● 1968 - United States erupts in race violence; Dozens of major cities in the United States are rocked by an escalation in the race riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King.

● 1968 - In wake of riots following M. L. King's assassination, Oakland police raid Black Panther Party headquarters, killing Bobby Hutton and wounding three others, including Eldridge Cleaver. Police open fire on a car of Black Panthers returning from a meeting. The Panthers escape their vehicle and run into a house. Police throw tear gas & riddle the house with machine-gun bullets. After police set the building on fire, the Panthers try to surrender. Seventeen-year-old Bobby Hutton comes out of the house with his hands in the air. But a police officer shouts, "He's got a gun." This prompts a barrage of police gunfire that leaves Hutton dead. Police later admit Hutton was not carrying a gun.

● 1968 - 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution

● 1976 - Spain - MIL member Oriol Sole Sugranyes shot dead following an escape of Resistance prisoners (all ETA members but him) from a Segovia jail as he tries to cross the border into France.

● 1980 - France - Raiders destroy one computer center, and two others two days later. The actions were claimed by Action Directe. The Committee for the Liquidation and Misappropriation of Computers stated - "We are computer workers, well-placed to know the present and future danger of computer systems....They are used to clarify, control, and repress. We do not want to be shut up in the ghettos of programs and organizational patterns."

● 1985 - William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient to be discharged from the hospital.

● 1987 - Dennis Levine began a two-year jail term for insider trading.

● 1988 - North pole explorer Matthew Henson buried next to Robert Peary in Arlington

● 1989 - Dockers' 'jobs for life' scrapped; The government has announced it is to abolish legislation which guarantees work for more than 9,000 dockers.

● 1992 - Science-fiction author Isaac Asimov died at age 72. It would be ten years before the cause of his death would be revealed. He had received tainted blood during surgery and had contracted AIDS. Because of the prejudice shown Arthur Ashe in similar circumstances, doctors urged Asimov and family to wait the ten years.

● 1998 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announced that they would be merging. The new creation was the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world. The name would become Citigroup.

● 1998 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9,000 points for the first time.

● 1998 - Federal researchers in the U.S. announced that daily tamoxifen pills could cut breast cancer risk among high-risk women.

● 2001 - Algerian national Ahmed Ressam, accused of bringing explosives into the United States days before the millennium celebrations, was convicted twice in the same day - first in France for belonging to a group supporting Islamic militants, then in Los Angeles on terror charges.

● 2001 - Pacific Gas and Electric filed for bankruptcy.

● 2004 - Jordan's military court convicted eight Muslim militants and sentenced them to death for the 2002 killing of U.S. aid official Laurence Foley in a terror conspiracy linked to al-Qaida.

● 2004 - Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.

● 2005 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco died at age 81, leaving the throne to Prince Albert II.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Balderik● St. Berthane● St. Brychan, King of Brycheiniog, South Wales● St. Elstan● St. Florentius● St. Isolde● St. Marcellinus of Carthage (d. 413)● St. Paul Tinh● St. Platonides● St. Rufina● St. Sixtus● Sts. Timothy & Diogenes● St. Ulehad● St. William of Eskilsoe● St. Winebald● Bl. Notker

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 24 (Civil Date: April 6)● Forefeast of the Annunciation.● St. Zacharias the Recluse.● St. Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia.● St. James the Confessor, Bishop of Catania.● Hieromartyr Parthenius, Patriarch of Constantinople.● Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan.● St. Artemius, Bishop of Thessalonica.● St. Zachariah, faster of the Kiev Caves.

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